The hound dogs, Belle and Fe can tell the days are getting shorter. Belle, the sleek youthful black labrador or Lady Whippyshaw as my daughter has named her, is quickly putting on her undercoat. She'll need it for breaking ice and swiming cold water to retrive fat greenheads and canvasbacks over the next six weeks as we roam across Saskatchewan for our 23th consective years. Fe Rey or Fe, our six year old German wirehair is a funny animal. She is all instinct and a hunting machine imprinted on the lab. God help those who approach her when she is chained. Fe will launch into a terrifing rabid attack like a junk yard dog. Take her off the chain and she is a docile affectionate beast. She goes along to get along without an ambition in the world until she scents grouse or Dakota pheasants.
The Reno Air Race are finished. There were three piots killed this year and Steve Fossey the famous balloner is missing while flying Nevada's outback to locate a salt flat for speed records. The Harley crusiers are in town this week dressed in black tryin gto look tough but really having the classic "gorilla-marshmellow complex." I see few vintage machine so I loose intrest and hop on my burnt Orange 1300 cc Honda crusier with a drive thanking the heaven for Honda..
Snow dusted Donner summit and many choose to trailer their bikes rather than risk ice. The die hards flood the down town with over 5,000 bikes, mainly middle aged professional having a fling at fast bikes. It's cood with snow dusting on the mountain and I'm wondering why I 'm heading North but I know there'll be time for the Baja this winter.
I'll leave suddenly after parting with Ellen who is anxious to have time to her self. I head over to the backside of Wells in Clover Vally and hunt the Ruby's with my friend for Snowcock, a large Chuckar. We've found their leers and can get on top of them through a dense stand of Aspen. Fun birds and great to roast
This year I think I 'll cross over by Sweetgrass Montana and head up to Drumheller before Saskatchewan. I am to help open a new lodge up north that is suppose to have terrific grouse and duck hunting. Hopes are high
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